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Pollinators

Globally pollinators are in decline, particularly bees that are important in pollinating many crops (eg most fruit and vegetables). Research is focussed on ensuring that conventional or bio- pesticides used in IPM have minimal ‘non-target’ impacts on essential pollinators at field, farm and landscape scales. Future IPM solutions need to include Pollinators (IPPM) so that this vital ecosystem service is maintained in agro-ecosystems.

Reduction in the availability and quality of plant food resources through arable intensification and habitat fragmentation has been cited as a major cause of the decline in pollinators in the UK and worldwide, and is likely to have a negative impact...

We have been breeding raspberry varieties for Scotland, UK and Europe for > 40 years. A key trait (conferred by one or more major resistance genes) is for resistance to the main aphid pest, the large raspberry aphid. This strategy has been very...